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CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan- Participants help each other wrap different gift items during a Furoshiki gift wrapping class Nov. 21 at the Family Readiness Center aboard Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan. Furoshiki, t More

Sisters Andrea Christofferson (left) and Karen Sorenson (right) have gathered the World War I artifacts, photos and stories of their grandfather Cpl. Ralph Lindsay. Lindsay joined the Wisconsin National Guard i More

Spc. Eddie Dreher, is a Gainesville, Fla., native, is learning the ways of an all-wheel vehicle mechanic. Dreher has no fear of getting his hands dirty as he cleans the grease out of the hub. Dreher is a cargo More

Naoma White wraps a piece of stained glass with copper ribbon under the watchful eye of Kelcy Stefansson during a stained glass class at the F.E. Warren AFB arts and crafts center, May 22, 2012. Applying the co More

ATLANTIC OCEAN - Cadet Karlo Vazquez, with Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Parrish looking on, applies grease in the Captain's Coffin to the emergency steering assembly of the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, May 29, 201 More

Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command and fellow U.S. service members stationed aboard Soto Cano Air Base prepare meals to distribute to citizens in need at local hospital More

Petty Officer 1st Class Tammy Cook, a dental technician with 4th Dental Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group prepares equipment at a dental work station June 15, 2014, the day prior to the beginning of Innovat More

Thai Marines worked alongside U.S. Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron 172 and civilian volunteers from the region to help construct an addition to a school in Trat province, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 13 More

201004-N-YM720-1165 PUERTO QUETZAL, Guatemala (Oct. 4, 2020) – Sailors heave in line aboard the Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) during a sea and anchor evolution as the s More

A wooden mallet, called a Kine, pounds rice into a mash called mochi Jan. 21, 2017, at Koza Music City, Okinawa, Japan. Making mochi requires at least two people, one person to pound the rice and another to rol More

Machinists Mate 1st Class Gandy Ranson, assigned to the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Maryland (SSBN 738), pours paint into a paint tray held by Lt. Brian Bink at the Habitat for Humanity ReStores More

The supplement business is a multi-billion dollar industry that is not currently regulated like conventional food and drug products by the Food and Drug Administration. The use of supplements is designed to add More

U.S. Army Pfc. Cody Perez of the California Army National Guard’s Headquarters Company, 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 224th Sustainment Brigade, tosses canned goods into boxes June 23, 2020, at th More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. William “Willy” Reibsome III, 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron wheel and tire noncommissioned officer in charge, cleans and inspects an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft wheel at B More

Army Spc. Alejandro Gomez (left) dons personal protective fire resistant gear with the help of Fire Inspector, Alphonso Isom, as part of Fire Prevention Week kickoff activities at the base galley, Oct. 8, 2018. More

FORT LEE, Va. - Shown is a portion of team Coast Guard's Cold Food Table Exhibit, which they received 1st place for, during the 37th annual Military Culinary Arts Competition here, March 7, 2012. The two-week c More

Chief Engineer of the Marine Corps Jeannette Evans-Morgis (center) and Mark Jackson, assistant portfolio manager–Engineering for Network and Infrastructure, demonstrate the FitLight Trainer April 6, at Marine C More

Senior fish and wildlife students divide soil samples that will be sent to a lab for analysis. The students are helping the Corps of Engineers determine if current food plots are both effective and efficient.

Eric Fornoff, Envision cashier, looks through his pocket magnifier to read a price tag at the base supply store at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Sept. 30, 2013. Fornoff is legally blind and has been working More

Man and woman doing pottery.

Soldiers assigned to the 91st Brigade Engineers Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, took part in a community event in Boleslawiec, Poland, Aug. 18, 2018. This was an annual event t More

A worker directs feed into a receptacle at the Uthman Feed Mill in Mahmudiyah on May 21.

NEW YORK--Third grade student Nakia, from PS 249 in Brooklyn, shows off her painted hands during the school's paint club session where Publicolor site leaders and mentors and volunteers from Coast Guard Sector More

Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Griffin, 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, and Airman 1st Class Melissa Bradley, 439 AEAS, mix shredded paper, sawdust and water together to make fuel pucks and bricks at Kabul Inte More

FORESTVILLE, Md. - Historical artifacts are stored on shelves at the U.S. Coast Guard exhibit center here, Feb. 10, 2012. The Coast Guard Historian's Office preserves items for display at the Coast Guard Museu More

Lillian Maribel prepares tortillas for the military police and the Salvadoran army during Beyond the Horizon at Sonsonate, El Salvador, April 15, 2013. Beyond the Horizon is a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of St More

Vietnamese workers perform excavation operations as part of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery mission in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, Nov. 13.The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide More

Navy Lt. Frank G. Percy, the assistant battalion surgeon for 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, cleans the burnt foot of a child at Patrol Base Gorgak, Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 25, 2010. Providing m More

Caitllin Meadows, a member of a science party aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, sifts through a sediment sample while underway in the Arctic, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Meadows was picking through the sample, w More

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – A child looks at a giant African bullfrog from ZOOMobile outside the library at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, June 19, 2018. ZOOMobile brings live animals to children acros More

Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 2nd Class Patricia Bermudez, assigned to the Nimitiz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), applies a clear-coating to skateboards for retiring officers. Lincoln is u More

190528-N-KP445-1108 NORFOLK, Virginia (May 28, 2019) Kevin Odham, of Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) Hull Division, displays structures created in the Waterjet Shop to a staff member from Herit More

A Marine, right, with 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, III MEF pounds rice to make mochi Jan. 16 at Hikarigaoka Nursing Home in Okinawa, Japan. Marines, sailors an More

A repatriation ceremony marking the return of a collection of cultural property, art and antiquities looted from Peru to their rightful owners – the people of Peru, was held July 12. The objects were seized by More

KATY, Texas (Sept 12, 2008) Members of the Future Farmers of America from Katy High School stop by the Coast Guard Incident Command Post with sweets and baked goods. Personnel and assets were properly repositio More

Items donated to the Airborne Attic and the Lending Closet, initiatives under Army Community Services for Soldiers E-4 and below, line the shelves to assist Soldiers transitioning to Fort Bragg from other Army More

Kate McMorrow, left, from Australia’s Department of Defence, with Julie Stalker from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, during load preparation at Anderson Air Base in Guam for Operation Chris More

Vintage pharmaceutical instruments are displayed during William Beaumont Army Medical Center’s National Pharmacy Week celebration, Oct. 18.

(From left to right:) Navy spouse Johanna Drake, Army spouse Kim Gonzales and Marine spouse Kaci Godwin learn cake decorating techniques at Waikulu Community Center during the Joint Spouses’ Conference 2014: Op More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Patricia West, 52nd Command Post senior emergency actions controller, chalks her hands in preparation for deadlifting weights at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, Jan. 16, 2019. Deadlifti More

Maj. Paul Tolbert, the brigade chaplain for the 1st Infantry Division Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade, paints a rock in honor of Suicide Awareness month at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, September 3, 2019. More

In the final hours of Ola de Esperanza Sanadora or Healing Waves of Hope exercise, U.S. Navy Seaman Holli Glenn and Army Cpl. Chantel Ruffin both assigned to the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity u More

Ramstein Elementary School students fill up bags with popcorn during Read Across America week March 2, 2016, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This year, the Ramstein Elementary School staff planned a week full of More

A sailor assigned to forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9) puts a fresh coat of paint on a t-bit post aboard Denver. Denver is on patrol with the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready G More

Take a load off! A Crane Army Ammunition Activity employee attaches lifting lugs to 155mm rounds prior to disassembly and recycling. Crane Army works to maximize the value of every taxpayer dollar and use our r More

Chief Petty Officer Joshua Miller, a member of the Baltimore chapter of the Chief Petty Officer's Association, prepares concrete at a Habitat for Humanity build in Baltimore, Md., Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. The Bal More

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1's Civic Construction Action Detail Cambodia construct a new bathroom facility as part of their 2014 Pacific Deployment. Aligned with Secretary of the Navy Ray More

Machined Copper CGR-84 Thruster #GRC-C11-VPS (Vacuum Plasma Spray) NASA Identifier: C-2007-309

Seaman Apprentice Jovonte Brown, from Arlington, Ga., prepares to paint aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Stennis is currently undergoing an operational training period in prepa More

An Afghan construction worker places tiles to construct the floor of the Showat basic health clinic in Paktya province, July 12. The clinic, a project approved by the Paktya Provincial Development Council in su More

Machined Copper CGR-84 Thrusters NASA Identifier: C-2007-275

Sgt. Alidou Ali Ouro Nille, right, a Camo2Commerce Heroes Corporate Fellowship Academy fellow graduate from 46th Aviation Support Battalion, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, poses for a photo with Washington State More

DAKAR, Senegal (July 29, 2011) Coast Guard Ensigns Margerite Collins (LEFT) and Krysta Rhode reload paint rollers during a community relations project at a middle school in Dakar, Senegal, Dakar, where the crew More

Airman 1st Class Lillian Miller holds a cactus at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 9, 2018. The cactus symbolizes Miller’s anxiety which was subdued with the help of the 2nd Medical Group Mental Health clini More

Buckets wait to be screened by local Vietnamese workers and members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team during a recovery mission in Nghe An province, Vietnam, Nov. 13, 2018. The mission More

Republic of Singapore Air Force Military Expert Two Second Warrant Officer Kong Kum Cheong, 425th Fighter Squadron maintainer, gathers aircraft parts Aug. 5, 2020, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. RSAF personnel h More

Coalition service members and civilians from (left to right) France, the United States and Mongolia, serve themselves treats at the Thanksgiving lunch, Nov. 24, at Kabul International Airport. Thanksgiving, alt More

Soldiers of 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, conduct Preventative Maintenance Checks and Services and equipment inventory on M88A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lifting Extracti More

U.S. Air Force Assistant Adjutant General for Air, Brig. Gen. Stephen Mallette, pours syrup over his pancakes during a breakfast, Jan. 12, 2020 at the 235th Air Traffic Control Squadron in New London, N.C. Memb More

Karen Range helps her son paint during the Paint the Day Away event hosted by the Armed Services YMCA aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune’s Tarawa Terrace base housing area, Dec. 9. There were ceramic items a More

A family enjoys their time with the raw material of the soap while participating in the "Make a Stone Soap" program, prepared by the Pocheon Art Valley, July 23. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Yi, Jung-uk)

NASA 50th Anniversary Plum Brook Open House 2008 NASA Identifier: C-2008-1249

U.S Air Force Staff Sgt. Monique Hunter, with Air Education and Training Command, talks to children about biblical stories during vacation Bible school June 26, 2014, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. More

NEW ORLEANS (Apr. 29, 2005) (Top) Coast Guard Seaman Dustin L. Laub, 21, of Boise, Idaho, and (bottom) Seaman Fabien E. Villarreal, 20, of Stockton, Calif., prepare for their workout today by drinking a whey pr More

Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan Graham, a crew member aboard the Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin, serves food to students Wednesday, May 29, 2013, during the Spring Fling event at Kennedy Krieger Institute's Montg More

An Airman assigned to the 48th Component Maintenance Squadron loads F-15 fan blades at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, June 13. The 48th CMS is responsible for the installation’s propulsions shop, where ma More

Petty Officer 3rd Class Gregory Lugo, an electronics technician aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk, and Petty Officer 1st Class Shane Carroll, an operations specialist aboard the Mohawk, mix concrete for the More

Capt. Erin Demchko makes rice cakes, known as mochi, with Okinawa residents Jan. 8 at Shioya Sub-village Hall in Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan. Okinawa residents invited Marines to partake and experience this trad More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District assists Newport News Public Schools at the NNPS Engineering Design Challenge held at Newsome Park Elementary School, Newport News, Va., Nov. 2, 2018. Fourth and More

Kentucky National Guard Sgt. Sean Durban cuts a piece of plywood for retired Air Force veteran Thomas Coder, a West Liberty, Ky., resident, March 7. Durban and Pfc. Kyle Gray, both of the Morehead Ky.-based 301 More

Dave Lapota, scientist, and Melissa Blando, student data analyst, spawning the endangered black abalone in a restoration effort here at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. (photo by Alan Antcza More

Hull Maintenance Technician Fireman John R. Sterett from Rockford, Ill., assembles a commode in the pipe shop aboard aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). Enterprise is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area o More

Afghan contractors and Soldiers of Train, Advise and Assist Command-South, comprised of the 40th Infantry Division, California National Guard, and the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, fi More

Master Sgt. Michael Dinneen, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing chapel, unloads donated blankets at the village orphanage here Monday. Manas Area Benefit Outreach Society reps visited the village to donate items and More

Pollution investigators from Coast Guard Sector Boston teach Everett Police Department’s Junior Police Academy cadets, at Everett High School, in Massachusetts, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. The Coast Guard marine More

(April 11, 2008) ONBOARD THE USCGC BOUTWELL - Petty Officer 3rd Class Errol Vanzie and Seaman Shannon C. Hester, from the CGC Boutwell, prepare baked goods for the following workday during the Boutwell's easter More

Students at the Child Development Center watch jets of soda fly into the air - due to the combination of mints and pop - during a science fair on Vogelweh Military Complex Aug. 8.

U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin inspect and clean M16-A4 rifles and M4 carbines on Robertson Barracks, Darwin, NT, Australia, June 30, 2020. As a force postured and ready, the cleanliness and More

Photo courtesy of Becca Adams Wiesbaden High School senior Becca Adams shows off a fresh loaf of sourdough bread May 1, 2020. During her extra time at home, she perfected her own recipes for the baked good.

Airman 1st Class Jordan Sili, 23d Maintenance Squadron (MXS) crew member, ties linked tube carriers together during a 30mm rounds processing, July 11, 2018, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. This total force integra More

An employee prepares food at a New Baghdad District restaurant in eastern Baghdad, Nov. 10. Soldiers from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, patrolled the More

180805-N-AJ467-0039 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 5, 2018) Sailors participate in a Morale, Welfare and Recreation sponsored paint night aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The ship is underway c More

PSYOP Soldiers prepare for a leaflet drop during the Korean War.

COMBAT OUTPOST RANKEL, Helmand province, Afghanistan — Lance Cpl. Robert Lemont speaks to local shop owners during a security patrol here, July 26. Lemont, a native of a Mansfield Ind., is a squad leader with C More

Military children go through a simulated mobility line where they received uniforms, identification cards and dog-tags during the sixth annual Operation Kids event at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 25, 2014. More

M69 practice hand grenades and M228 practice fuses await use during 52nd Signal Battalion basic hand grenade course on the Boeblingen local training area near Boeblingen, Germany, Aug. 5, 2016. (U.S. Army photo More

Support Marines attached to 2nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) helped to construct a museum on the EOD compound at Camp Leatherneck, Af More

Chandler Norris (center) traces the name of his late grandfather, U.S. Air Force Maj. Rodney R. Norris, after the annual Memorial Wall ceremony held at the North Carolina Air National Guard (NCANG) Base, Charlo More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Young, construction battalion member, discusses the finishing touches of the dome with Hamdou Ahmed, a local villager, and Ismael Abdoulrahman, the Djibouti Joint Civil More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Yacobayah Cooper, 8th Aircfraft Maintenance Squadron munitions technician, assembles parts of a GBU-24B (guided bomb unit) during Exercise Cobra Gold 2019 at Korat Royal Thai Air Force More

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE THRUST CELLS NASA Identifier: GRC-C-2001-531

From left to right: Cpl. Chuck Marion, 23, a dog handler from Syracuse, N.Y., and Lance Cpl. Francisco Garcia, 21, a heavy equipment mechanic from Los Angeles, both with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marin More

Operations Specialist 2nd Class Robert Mertz, assigned to U.S. Naval Forces Korea, passes out supplies to a group of students at Seoul American Elementary School on U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan during geometry ni More

The Helmand Governor's Media Center has reported that the National Department of Security has arrested two insurgents and captured a significant amount of contraband in Lashkar-Gah and Nad-e-Ali districts, Helm More

Pfc. Jonathan Foster, an Omaha, Neb. native, now a combat engineer with 623rd Engineer Company, Nebraska National Guard, smoothes out wet cement in a wooden square mold with fellow engineers Spc. Dillan Hebert More

Students from Bolden Elementary/Middle School aboard Laurel Bay browse through items during Career Day at the school’s gymnasium Jan. 22. The day was part of a familiarization for the students in careers that t More

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Owen Bock, a power production craftsman with the 116th Civil Engineer Squadron, Georgia Air National Guard, mixes plaster at a Yerevan elderly institution during a European Command Hum More

A child paints pottery during a Hearts Apart event at the Chartreuse Moose in Warrensburg, Mo., June 17, 2013. Hearts Apart is a monthly program the Airman and Family Readiness Center uses to help build resilie More

SINGAPORE (July 29, 2016) – The U.S. Navy Region Center Singapore (NRCS) community shared laughter and drama as the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) actors and tour directors along with children of military se More

A Japanese local offers tomatoes to service members from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni during a volunteer event at Shimo-nakazone, Shuto in Iwkauni City, Japan, July 14, 2018. The volunteer event, organized More